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Producer Derek and Amanda had a great time at Rose City Comic Con with our good buddy Ellen from Just the Zoo of Us. Dr Mike Glynn and Dr Caitlyn Antes were also part of the super powers of cats panel talk! We love Rose City! Producer Derek also found a coin purse that looks just like Desi.

u/FillsYourNiche — 24 days ago
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The diabolical ironclad beetle can withstand the crushing force of 39,000 times its body weight. That is equivalent to a 68 kg (150 lb) person resisting the crushing force of 25 blue whales.

u/FillsYourNiche — 1 month ago
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Black-capped chickadees have exceptional spatial memory for a bird their size. They hide thousands of individual seeds across their territory every fall and can remember the locations of most of them months later.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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The star-nosed mole is the fastest eater on Earth. It hunts by slamming its nose against the soil up to 12 times a second. When it finds prey, it can identify and eat it in about 120 milliseconds, faster than the human eye can even process the motion.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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Astronomers Discover 'Mega-Earth' Exoplanet Gliese 523b. Gliese 523b (GJ 523b) is a young, ultra-dense planet that orbits almost perpendicular to its star’s spin.

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u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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Hedgehogs do something called "self-anointing." When they encounter a new or strong smell (a strange food, another animal's scent, even a strong-smelling plant) they'll chew it up, work it into a frothy saliva, and then twist around to spread that foam all over their own spines with their tongue.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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Naked mole-rats can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen by switching their metabolism to run on fructose instead of glucose, a trick otherwise only seen in plants.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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The white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus) builds an enormous, geometrically precise circular "nest" in the sand to attract a mate. The nest functions hydrodynamically, gathering fine sand at the center and directing water flow so it helps aerate the eggs he'll eventually guard.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found definitive evidence that the young Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy just two billion years after the Big Bang, revealing one of the earliest major mergers in the history of our Galaxy.

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u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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I found this beautiful native Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) last fall.

She was very gravid and looking for a place to oviposit. Luckily she found me, the entomologist on campus, and I moved her away from the walkway and onto a bush.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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Large blue butterfly caterpillars mimic Myrmica ant larvae in appearance and give off chemical cues similar to ant larvae. Ants come across the caterpillar, believe it is their larvae, and bring it back to their nests. Once there the caterpillar feeds on ant larvae and nectar the ants bring it.

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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Happy National Black Cat Day to our beautiful voids!

Producer Derek's Zotz and Clementine and my big boy Finn!

u/FillsYourNiche — 2 months ago
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The Vampire Hunters? (Lovebugs) with Ellen Weatherford Discussion Post

Dr Kelly Z is out today and filling in for her is Ellen Weatherford of Just The Zoo of Us podcast to discuss lovebugs (Plecia nearctica). Many tangents in this episode including Florida mullets, Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos, "shadow daddies," and a history of Batman's sidekicks.

u/FillsYourNiche — 4 months ago
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New research from the University of Oxford and the University of Reading suggests bipedalism and expanding brain size helped drive the overwhelming dominance of right-handedness in humans.

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u/FillsYourNiche — 5 months ago